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' J. CAYLOR I BOX Filed June 2, 1923 Patented Aug. 10, 1%25.

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JEFFERSON CAYLOR, or INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, Assrenon To GENERAL BOX colu- PANY, oFcHIcAso, rumors, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE;

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A'pplieation filed J-iine 2,

This invention relates to boxes, and more particularly to wirebo-und and similar boxes for shipping purposes. v

Among other objects the invention is ina tended to provide a box or light and strong construction, and possessing certain advantages in manufacture.

An illustrative box containing an embodiment or" the invention is shown in the anis nexed drawings,-i'n which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the unassembled box parts in position about to be assembled,

. a Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the com pleted box,

Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the midportion of one of the head sections of the illustrative box,

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken 20 on the line 4 i of Fig. 2.

The illustrativebox comprises a wirebound blank fold'edabout sheet metal heads 11 and 12.

A rectangular form of box being illustrated, the foldable blank for forming the successive box sides other than the heads, comprises in this instance four sections 1, 2, 3 and 4. These sections consist ofsuitable side material, such for instance as wood 30 veneer, attached to end cleats 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively; and the several sections are flexibly united in cooperative foldablerelationship by the binding wires 9, certain of which wires are stapled through the side material to the cleats.

When the blank is. folded'into box form around the heads, and the continuity of the binding wires is completed by tying or fastening their extremities as indicated at 10 the cleats of the respective sections cooper ate in the usual manner to form approximately rigid cleat frames at the opposite sides or heads ofthe box, spaced apart and held by the side materia-l'and bound by the wire bindings and resisting the tension of said bindings, as well understood in the art.

By constructing theblank so as to told with the cleats abutting and with adjacent edges of adjacent sections of side material overlapping one another, on the principle explained in the reissued patent to Inwood and Lavenberg No. 12,725 of November 26, 1907, the binding wires become tensioned in the foldinc operation over the dihedral, coracre of t e box, thereby increasing its 1923. Serial No. 643,010.

strength and sturdiness and promoting the tendency of the box to resume its shape after undergoing distorting strains, as for instance when the box is dropped on a trihedra-l corner.

The heads 11 and 12 are adapted to be secured to the cleats 01 each section of the for instance the lid cleats of the illustrative box, as could not be conveniently secured to the heads by fastenings driven from the interior of the box.

In this instance, the heads are shown having top and bottom flanges 13, 1 1 and 15,

formed by cutting and bending out flaps from the upper and lower margins of the heads. These bent-over flaps or flanges provide angle reinforcement at the top and bottom of the illustrative box, and serve as attaching flanges. The heads entolded by the cleated box sections bear against the inner faces of the cleats, with the bottom flanges 15 overlying and fastened to the bottom cleats 7, and with the top flanges 13 and 14 underlying and fastened to the top cleats 5. In assemblingsuch a box (which may be .iurnished to shippers as an unfolded shook), the sections 2, 3 and 4 of the blank are foldedabout corresponding sides of the heads, and the heads are secured to the cleats 6, 7 and 8 of said sections by nails or other appropriate fastenings drivenfrom the interior of the box through the margins of the headsand into the cleats; while the bottom cleats 7 may be. further secured, in a plane transverse to that of the previously mentioned fast'enin'gs, by nails or the like *driven through the bottom attaching flanges 15. After the box is filled and after the top section or lid is closed and secured by completing the continuity of the binding wires about the box, the box may be in verted and the top attaching flanges 13 and 14 may be secured to the cleats 5 of the lid or top section by nails or other appropriate fastenings.

Thus the'filled and closed box in condition for shipment of contents has all of its cleated sections, including the lid, firmly tied together by the heads of the box, as

well as by the binding wires, and the opposite heads tied together at all sides by the cleated sections, which contributes to the strength and rigidity of the package and prevents bowing or separation of box sides at unsecured margins with accompanying exposure or bulging of contents.

The heads of the box, being of material such for instance as thin sheet iron or other sheet metal of appropriate stillness, contribute an element of elasticity to the box and cooperate with the wire bindings in flexibly resisting distorting strains and tend ing to restore the box to original shape rater relief from such stra' For instance, it the box should be droppel upon a trihedral corner or subjected to diagonal strain, the cleated sides of the box niiay llex or shitt relatively to one another, with accompanying tiexure of the binding wires and the metal heads of the box; while the tension of the binding wires and the resiliency oi the heads will cooperate in resisting such flexing and in restoring the box to its original form after the. strainis relic ed.

Heads of material such as thin sheet metal also combine the advantages of lightness with adequate stillness, toughness and nontrangibility, and capacity of bending or crumpling without breaking under such severe strains as would disrupt ordinary wooden headed wirebound boxes.

By providing angle reinforcement at appropriate portions of the heads, the box may be greatly strengthened and braced. For example, in the illustrative structure, which is a comparatively shallow box having large top and bottom sections, the heads are angled or flanged at the midportions of the upper and lower margins, thus forming rigid struts for bracing the box transversely oi its longer dimensions. In this form of box the heads are exceedingly still at the center while more flexible between the central struts and the opposite sides, promoting the capability of the box to flex while ettectively resisting strains tending to collapse the box.

Boxes ot the construction described may be manufactured with somewhat smaller dimensions than ordinary wooden headed wirebound boxes, without sacrificing the capacity of the box. In other words, by virtue oi the thin material employed for the heads, boxes of specified interior dimensions may be made with shorter sections of material for the toldably cleated sides of the box. This importantly contributes to light ness of construction and results in a considerable saving of material in the manufacture of such boxes on a large commercial scale, and an appreciable gain in space in the storage of such boxes in large quantities.

Furthermore such boxes possess unusual strength and rigidity, combined with an unusually great elastic limit, promoting the capability oi the box to endure rough usage.

lt will be obvious that the present invent on is not limited to the speciic details of construction of the illustrative box. since such details may be variously modified to suit he ditl erent forms and dimensions ot' wirebound loxes required for different shipping purposes.

Having described my invention, 1 claim:

1. A metal herded wirebound box comprising, a. combination, flanged sheet metal heads; and a toldable cleated wirebound blank folded around said heads and having each of the cleats ot' the blank secured to said heads, said heads constituting end sections having formed centrally of their opposite marginal portions, outwardly extending flanges, said flanges forming with the adj acent marginal portions of the head, seats with divergent faces for receiving the cleats.

i A metal headed wirebound box comprising, in combination, metal heads; and a toldable wirebound blank folded around said heads and having each of the cleats of said blank secured to said heads, each of said heads being ermed at its midportion so as to provide an intermediate bracing strut tor opposite cleats ot the blank.

3. A metal headed wirebound box comprising, in combination, sheet metal heads; and a foldable cleated wirebound blank folded around said heads and having each of the cleats of the folded blank secured to said heads, each of said heads being formed with an angularly related portion engaging a lid cleat to permit the ready securement of the lid of the box to the heads after the lid is closed.

In testimony whereof, I have signed name to this specification.

JEFFERSON GAYLOB. 

